The last 25 years have seen an impressive array of scientific advances, from the sequencing of the human genome to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle at CERN (shown above). Fons Rademakers, ...

It’s the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at ...

Artificial intelligence promises to accelerate scientific discovery and open new frontiers of inquiry. But new research from James Evans (Faculty Co-Director of Novel Intelligence; Max Palevsky ...

In 2024, Joseph Coates was preparing for death at age 37. His medical team had informed him that his rare blood disorder—which leads to kidney failure, numb limbs, and an enlarged heart—was ...

New advances in gene editing, precision medicine and synthetic biology are all likely to have a major impact on how the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shapes its regulations in the near- and ...

Efforts to identify and evaluate next-generation therapeutics for pediatric brain tumors are easily stymied by the quality ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have changed our world for the better. Advances in medicine have allowed for ...